fake symbols to aid debugging

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:11:07PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Would it be feasible for the linker to
> > > generate a DWARF compilation unit for these stubs, and fill it with
> > > DW_AT_trampoline markers?
> > 
> > Yes, I could do that.  Doesn't solve my disassembly problem though,
> > does it?  Even if gdb is clever enough to rummage through dwarf info
> > for calls via stubs, I'd like to have objdump -d print useful symbols.
> 
> Why not change objdump so that it either:
> - understands appropriate bits of DWARF; or
> - understands stubs?

Making objdump understand DWARF might be the best option.  I probably
should be emitting DWARF for the stubs anyway.

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Alan Modra
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